Nearly Experts

This week we take the show on the road for the first time and join Edinburgh University's Anahit Behrooz. Anahit takes us through her PhD research on the maps of Middle Earth and we geek out a bit about the world of Tolkien.

This week we are joined in studio by Biochemistry PhD Luke Thompson, who takes us through his PhD work and how it may have led to an early breakthrough in combating some forms of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

This week we are joined by Astrophysics PhD student Tim Hewlett from the University of St Andrews who is researching black holes and their formation.

This week Sarah White joins us in studio to discuss her PhD work on the Law Courts at Canterbury in the Mediaeval Period. Find out how mediaeval lawcourts functioned, what kinds of people were involved and more interestingly, how someone from small-town Canada got herself into this kind of work! Theme song: Feeling Sunny - Scott Holmes